{"id":6708,"date":"2026-10-05T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:15:02","slug":"the-past-few-years-have-been-heavy-for-quavo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6708","title":{"rendered":"The Past Few Years Have Been Heavy For Quavo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past few years have been heavy for Quavo, who lost his nephew and Migos groupmate, Takeoff, in 2022.<\/p>\n

The relationship between the trio had already been strained, with each member focusing on his own solo material and Quavo and Takeoff branching off for a joint album earlier that year. But with Takeoff\u2019s tragic death, Migos effectively ended amid rumors of tension between Quavo and Offset.<\/p>\n

Quavo\u2019s previous solo record, 2023\u2019s Rocket Power, was a grief-stricken tribute to his late nephew. Three years later, the 35-year-old rapper is still grieving, but music has helped him to push through.<\/p>\n

His third solo effort, QR\u00d6MELIFE, honors the process of healing through expression\u2014a journey on which Pharrell served as not just an executive producer, but also a mentor. \u201cI appreciate my big brother Pharrell for guiding me and pushing me creatively at a time when I needed it,\u201d Quavo shared in a September statement.<\/p>\n

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Fresh off Clipse\u2019s 2025 comeback, the Louis Vuitton creative director holed up with Quavo in the studio to make every beat on the album.<\/p>\n

The result is the most upbeat and experimental record of Quavo\u2019s solo career, bridging the gap between classic funk and Down South rap.<\/p>\n

He recruits T.I. for the nostalgic \u201cBackwards,\u201d a \u201cWelcome to Atlanta\u201d sequel for 2026, while \u201cHAOYU DEWDAT\u201d tags Yung Miami for an interpolation of Young Bleed\u2019s 1998 No Limit sleeper hit. Quavo does his best James Brown impression on \u201cHit-A-Lik,\u201d channels \u201980s freestyle on \u201cTrance (Walk It Down),\u201d and joins forces with Justin Timberlake on the retro \u201cHouse Music,\u201d a synthwave ode to \u201cmusic you buy houses with.\u201d<\/p>\n

But QR\u00d6MELIFE\u2019s biggest moment is \u201cAway,\u201d a sonic sequel to 2017\u2019s \u201cStir Fry,\u201d Migos\u2019 first collaboration with Pharrell. More importantly, it\u2019s a reunion with Offset\u2014the first time the two have shared a track since 2021.<\/p>\n

At a listening session in LA, Offset emerged to stand beside Quavo as the song played\u2014a small but significant gesture for the long-estranged \u201ccousins.\u201d It\u2019s a milestone that makes Quavo\u2019s line on album closer \u201cDestined\u201d hit different: \u201cRemember where it started\/Forever Migo gang.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The past few years have been heavy for Quavo, who lost his nephew and Migos groupmate, Takeoff, in 2022. The relationship between the trio had already been strained, with each member focusing on his own solo material and Quavo and Takeoff branching off for a joint album earlier that year. But with Takeoff\u2019s tragic death, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,920],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}